Crystallographic Orientation of Clinoenstatite Produced by Deformation of Orthoenstatite
- 6 April 1973
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 180 (4081), 64-66
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.180.4081.64
Abstract
Uniaxial compression at 800°C and 5 kilobars confining pressure of a specimen cored from a single crystal of orthoenstatite [(Mg,Fe)SiO3] produced fine lamellae 100 to 1000 angstroms thick of untwinned clinoenstatite. The two phases are joined along (100) planes and have b and c axes in common. The orientation of the clinoenstatite a axis contradicts several previously suggested transformation mechanisms and reduces the set of possible mechanisms by a factor of 2.This publication has 12 references indexed in Scilit:
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